base: Use the global Mersenne twister throughout

This patch tidies up random number generation to ensure that it is
done consistently throughout the code base. In essence this involves a
clean-up of Ruby, and some code simplifications in the traffic
generator.

As part of this patch a bunch of skewed distributions (off-by-one etc)
have been fixed.

Note that a single global random number generator is used, and that
the object instantiation order will impact the behaviour (the sequence
of numbers will be unaffected, but if module A calles random before
module B then they would obviously see a different outcome). The
dependency on the instantiation order is true in any case due to the
execution-model of gem5, so we leave it as is. Also note that the
global ranom generator is not thread safe at this point.

Regressions using the memtest, TrafficGen or any Ruby tester are
affected and will be updated accordingly.

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.cc b/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.cc
index b8c490ac5..0a89bda53 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.cc
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.cc
@@ -52,13 +52,6 @@ NetDest::addNetDest(const NetDest& netDest)
 }
 
 void
-NetDest::addRandom()
-{
-    int i = random()%m_bits.size();
-    m_bits[i].addRandom();
-}
-
-void
 NetDest::setNetDest(MachineType machine, const Set& set)
 {
     // assure that there is only one set of destinations for this machine
diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.hh b/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.hh
index ba72fe214..9914ca218 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/common/NetDest.hh
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ class NetDest
 
     void add(MachineID newElement);
     void addNetDest(const NetDest& netDest);
-    void addRandom();
     void setNetDest(MachineType machine, const Set& set);
     void remove(MachineID oldElement);
     void removeNetDest(const NetDest& netDest);
diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.cc b/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.cc
index c674655ab..280fe71b4 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.cc
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.cc
@@ -103,22 +103,6 @@ Set::addSet(const Set& set)
 }
 
 /*
- * This function should randomly assign 1 to the bits in the set--it
- * should not clear the bits bits first, though?
- */
-void
-Set::addRandom()
-{
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < m_nArrayLen; i++) {
-        // this ensures that all 32 bits are subject to random effects,
-        // as RAND_MAX typically = 0x7FFFFFFF
-        m_p_nArray[i] |= random() ^ (random() << 4);
-    }
-    clearExcess();
-}
-
-/*
  * This function clears bits that are =1 in the parameter set
  */
 void
diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.hh b/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.hh
index 724c5d9e9..bedd44aa6 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/common/Set.hh
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ class Set
     }
 
     void addSet(const Set& set);
-    void addRandom();
 
     void
     remove(NodeID index)